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  • Ender's Game: Normal Family?

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    A Family Affair Family is a wonderful thing It brings togetherness and love to a group of people There are many ways that a family is supposed to look like These ways are portrayed through television movies and other examples However many families are not like these models Take Andrew Wiggins family for instance from the novel Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card Andrew or more commonly known as Ender does not have a very normal family Because of a war going on between an alien race called t

  • Persuasion in Antony's Funeral Speech in Julius Caesar

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    THE POWER OF PERSUASION In the art of persuasive power we have learned a great deal Mark Antonys funeral speech is an exemplary masterwork of persuasion Had he stated at the outset what his intentions were he would have been ambushed and killed Rather he carefully adopted a cautious lateral approach adapted his approach by appearing to go along with the conspirators and ironically using Brutuss words to make it appear he accepts their justifications for the brutal slaying of Caesar To turn the

  • Chinese Chivalry and Western Knight Spirit in Heroes of the Marshes and Sir Gawa

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    Chinese Chivalry and Western Knight Spirit Chinese chivalry which has long history in China is an important element of traditional Chinese culture and Western knight spirit which has much the same as Chinese chivalry is also flowering in the Middle Ages These two cultural spirits have showed themselves in two very important works named the Sir Gawain and the Green knight which is known as a masterpiece of the European romantic verse and Heroes of the Marshes which is one of the Four Masterpiece

  • Harry Potter as an Epic

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    EpThe epic form has been part of the worlds literature for decades and continued to be one of the most substantial forms of written matters In the film Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by David Columbus the spectator discovers numerous characteristics that resemble the work with other epic forms such as Beowulf by Burton Raffel Harry Potter demonstrates deeds and qualities of a hero by performing courageous actions He also determines the fate of Hogwarts and the life of Ginny Weasly Over

  • Epiphany And Revival In The Dead

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    Epiphany and Revival in The Dead James Joyce was born in Dublin he was the most prominent writer of English prose in the first half of the twentieth century Many critics maintain that his verbal facility equaled that of William Shakespeare or John Milton and his experiments in prose as a virtuoso redefined the limits of language and the form of the modern novel The Dead the final story of Joyces collection Dubliners is considered one of the most beautifully executed stories in the English langu

  • Analysis of Holy Sonnet VII and XVII

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    SONNET ARGUMENT PORTRAYING DONNES WIT AND SYMBOLISM HOLY SONNETS VIII AND XVII The two subjects in which John Donne went deepest are those which try the understanding most love and religion mentions George Williamson Furthermore he pointed out From these twin sources flow significant currents in English poetry Love poetry could never be quite the same after him and religious verse that is also poetry descends from him Many critics for years focused on one of these currents The Songs and Sonets

  • Commentary on The Battler

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    The world contains many different groups of people obviously These groups divide the world into class race gender age and so on But even with all these different physical descriptions of people people can form into three main groups This concept did not come clear until I read Ernest Hemingways The Battler in his collection of short stories In Our Time In this story Hemingway uses three main characters to explain who exactly those three main groups of people are According to Hemingway people oc

  • Escape To Freedom in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Escape to Freedom Over the course of history individuals have fought and died to gain and protect their freedom While some humans perceive freedom as being able to do whatever comes to ones mind without hindrance others believe it is the absence of subjection to foreign domination Regardless of what people can comprehend about being free it cannot be accomplished or achieved until the person finds themselves away from what hinders them from what they desire In Mark Twains novel Adventures of Hu

  • Crime in Of Mice and Men

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    Yes it is very simple to understand that murder is a crime and in most cases it should be punishable by execution It is also very easy to understand that my client George is the man that killed Lennie Small However it is not easy to understand why he killed him and if it is considered murder Thats right all killings are not murder they are not the same thing Killing is the taking of a like but murder is the doing so out of hatred or out of personal gain The state sentences people to death it ki

  • Negative Utopia in 1984

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    George Orwells Nineteen Eighty Four presents a negative utopian picture a society ruled by rigid totalitarianism The government which Orwell creates in his novel is ruled by an entity known as Big Brother and consists of three branches The Ministry of Truth overseeing the distribution of propaganda and other printed materials the Ministry of War the millitary unit and the Ministry of Love the law enforcement division make up the government The main character Winston Smith does not completely ac

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